On 04/22/2017 11:24 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote:
Obviously, the system is designed for this - but why is nobody doing this for Linux?
The time commitment necessary to keep up with the sometimes dramatic
changes in the typical Linux distribution is very large; I would guess
that's the reason it's not typically done.
The LinuxTech EL6 libc5 is only possible because Mandriva 2011 contained
it. I've not tested that piece yet, but plan to a bit later.
I just looked it up:
FreeBSD 4.0 was released over 17 years ago, around the same time as RHL 6.2…
Yep, and the binaries I have are older than that. The particular setup
being used actually dates from 1997, almost exactly 20 years ago. The
version was upgraded a few times afterwards; the timestamps on the
original distribution archive for the glibc 2.1 version are all from May
12, 1999, but the original version was from fall of 1996.
I'm glad I held those two tarballs back all these years.
In any case, CentOS 2.1 plus the RHL 6.2 compat-glibc-2.1 packages have
the system back up and running. and running fast.
The host is CentOS 7.3.1611 using bridged networking for KVM. So far
it's running well.
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